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[Jabbok]

I want to make a Topic Module for Professor Horner's Bible Reading Plan.For example: Day 1 = Matthew 1; Genesis 1; Romans 1 etc.
I don't know where to begin. Can anyone give me some pointers?

[Josh Bond]

I don't think we have a tool to create Bible Reading Plans.

You can click Tools > Bible Reading to use the wizard to create a Bible Reading Plan. But it doesn't allow you to be as specific as what you're asking for..

You would need to download Sqlite Database Browser (or any other simple database editor). And edit an existing brpx file. As you can see from the screenshot, you can control what you read on which day, in what resembles a spreadsheet view.

 bible-reading-plan.png   83.19K   5 downloads

So for Matthew on Day 1, you would find the Day 1 field (upper, left corner). For the book number, you would put 40 (Matthew is the 40th book of the protestant Bible). ChapterBegin = 1. ChapterEnd = 28.

Here's a list of the numbered (protestant cannon) Bible books e-Sword uses:


Old Testament: Books 1 to 39
New Testament: Books 40 to 66

Written by Moses
1. Genesis
2. Exodus
3. Leviticus
4. Numbers
5. Deuteronomy

OT Narratives
6. Joshua
7. Judges
8. Ruth
9. 1 Samuel
10. 2 Samuel
11. 1 Kings
12. 2 Kings
13. 1 Chronicles
14. 2 Chronicles
15. Ezra
16. Nehemiah
17. Esther

Wisdom Literature
18. Job
19. Psalms
20. Proverbs
21. Ecclesiastes
22. Song of Songs

Major Prophets
23. Isaiah
24. Jeremiah
25. Lamentations
26. Ezekiel
27. Daniel

Minor Prophets
28. Hosea
29. Joel
30. Amos
31. Obadiah
32. Jonah
33. Micah
34. Nahum
35. Habakkuk
36. Zephaniah
37. Haggai
38. Zechariah
39. Malachi

NT Narratives
40. Matthew
41. Mark
42. Luke
43. John
44. Acts

Epistles by Paul
45. Romans
46. 1 Corinthians
47. 2 Corinthians
48. Galatians
49. Ephesians
50. Philippians
51. Colossians
52. 1 Thessalonians
53. 2 Thessalonians
54. 1 Timothy
55. 2 Timothy
56. Titus
57. Philemon

General Epistles
58. Hebrews
59. James
60. 1 Peter
61. 2 Peter
62. 1 John
63. 2 John
64. 3 John
65. Jude

Apocalyptic Epistle by John
66. Revelation

[jonathon]

Wow did you just call us dumb

Programming in Python is a very far cry from using a text editor.

FWIW, the major Biblical software developers write a custom script for each resource that they create, and redistribute. This provides a higher quality, more predictable resource for the end-user.

jonathon

[jonathon]

I don't think we have a tool to create Bible Reading Plans.

Horner's is one of the 2k odd BRPs I have somewhere in my e-Sword collection. One that I thought had escaped from my hard drive into the great wild yonder of e-Sword users.

(I need to sit down and write a program that creates a database that lists the filename, date of creation, file size, file directory, file path, CD/DVD/USB stick/flashcard/hard drive name, and various hashvalues, for everything on my umpteen million disks.)

Until about eighteen months ago, Rick considered the database tables to be proprietary, and the details of it were not to be publicly released.

jonathon

[BH.]

I don't think we have a tool to create Bible Reading Plans.

One should not be too hard to create. In T3, that would be a "mark" for each day, with book/chapter/verse specifications of what to read. And A definition of which days of the week to read on, an perhaps a description of the file. The database structure is straight forward. hm....

[Josh Bond]

One should not be too hard to create. In T3, that would be a "mark" for each day, with book/chapter/verse specifications of what to read. And A definition of which days of the week to read on, an perhaps a description of the file. The database structure is straight forward. hm....

If the day is the mark, then how would you specify the begin/end chapter and begin/end verse? Like this, with 1 being day 1 and the first verse being the begin and the second being the end?

÷1
Gen 1:1
Gen 10:1

[BH.]

The days would be sequential. No need to "number" them. In a BRPX file, the reading is chapter based, not verse based. So, Gen 1-3 would specify Genesis chapters 1 to 3. No need for fancy syntax, just put in the book(s) and chapter(s) you want to read on any given day. Here would be a sample file. And I have it coded in T3 now, and attached is a sample BRPX file.

#define DOW=1,1,1,1,1,1,1
#define comments=A Bible Reading Plan

÷ The opening of Genesis, Gen 1-11. You can put in random text, T3 would ignore that as it would only look for scripture verses.

÷ Random chapters Psa 51; Rom 5.

÷ Gen 12-15; Mat 1-3
Just a thought.

Attached Files

•  TEST Reading Plan.zip   766bytes   5 downloads

[BH.]

BTW - you can tooltip this file, and it will still work. Oh that is if Chapter Tooltips are enabled. Ha - I need to add that to the routine, to ensure they are enabled.

NOTE - I took the easy way out. BRPX files allow for multiple sequential chapters to be specified. But it also will accept single chapters at a time. I took the latter approach, thus making it just a simple matter of finding the book and chapter of what to read on a given day. But I think this discussion is getting too far off topic so I'll stop... :-)

[chosen]

How can I display "clipboard" view window in the MS Word 2010?

[David]

How can I display "clipboard" view window in the MS Word 2010?

Go to the Home tab, and click the little arrow in the lower right corner of the Clipboard group.